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Revolutionary Struggle (Greek:
Επαναστατικός Αγώνας, Epanastatikos Agonas — EA)
is an anarchistGreekurban guerilla group
known for its attacks on Greek government buildings and the
American embassy in Athens. It is widely described as a terrorist group by both the Greek
government[1]
and the media.[2][3]

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Attacks of
2003-2007

The group first emerged in 2003 with a bombing attack on an
Athens courthouse complex, following that up with attacks in 2004
on the Greek labour ministry and police buses.[1]
On 22 December 2005, the group published a manifesto in the Greek
satirical magazine, To Pontiki, in which it expressed
revolutionary, anti-globalisation and anti-American ideological aims.[2]
In January 2007, an anonymous caller claiming to be from the group
claimed responsibility for a missile attack on the U.S. embassy in
Athens.[3]
Following the January 12, 2007 missile attack, in which a light
anti-armour rocket was used (apparently identical to that employed
in a 17 November group attack on 7 April 1998), Greek
authorities described the group as a spinoff of Revolutionary
Organization 17 November.[4][5]

2007
statement

In a statement published in To Pontiki on January 25,
Revolutionary Struggle admitted that it had carried out the embassy
attack, claiming that the "strike was our answer to the criminal
war against 'terrorism' that the US has unleashed over the entire
planet with the help of fellow-traveling states".[6]

Terrorist
designation

The European
Union added RS to its list of designated terrorist
organizations on June 29, 2007.[7]
On May 18, 2009, a U.S. State Department spokesman announced in a
press briefing that U.S. Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton had
formally designated Revolutionary Struggle as a foreign terrorist
organization under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act.[8] The
designation bars any form of support from people or organizations
within the United States.

2009
implication

In January 2009, Greek police said their ballistics tests showed
the weapon used in RS's 30 April 2007 attack was used again in a 5
January 2009 shooting of a police officer. A second weapon used in
the 5 January attack was tied by the police to a 23 December 2008
attack on a police bus. That attack was reported to have been
claimed by a group calling itself Popular Action (Λαϊκή Δράση,
Laiki Drasi), as a response to the 2008 civil
unrest in Greece.[9]

January 5, 2009: Shots fired at police guarding the Ministry of
Culture building in Athens. A 21-year-old member of the riot police
unit, Diamandis Mantzounis, was critically wounded in the body and
leg. Weapons traced to those used in the 30 April 2007 and 23
December 2008 shootings.

February 18, 2009: Failed car bomb attack on the Citibank offices in central
Athens. Police later said the bomb was powerful enough to destroy
the four-story building.

9 March 2009: Bomb attack on a Citibank branch in suburban
Athens.[10]

2 September 2009: Explosion outside the Athens stock exchange
causing minor injures to one woman and significant damage to the
surrounding area. A second bomb in Thessaloniki causing minor
damage and no injuries. The group is suspect.[14]